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“In conclusion, today's open debate is an opportunity to discuss how to better protect civilians, which is an urgently needed conversation. But through it I hope we also send an equally urgent message: no matter how frequent, heinous or blatant the assaults on civilians, whether in Syria or elsewhere, the Security Council will never accept them as the new normal, as somehow inevitable. Starving civilians, burning villages, sexually enslaving women: these are not the costs of war or the inevitable consequences of war; these are heinous, wilful, barbaric acts. They are the acts that the Organization was created to prevent. The Council must remain committed to combating them. It must do more to combat them. We must do better at ensuring accountability for those who inflict harm upon civilians or those tasked with aiding civilians.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“We can also increase, as I think we have been doing lately, Security Council engagement with regional organizations, consistent with Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations. Individual Member States, each with its particular bilateral relationships and capabilities, must also consider all the relevant tools in our respect toolboxes. Member States and all parts of the United Nations must also embrace the Secretary-General's Human Rights up Front initiative, which means recognizing once and for all that mainstreaming human rights across the Organization is not a luxury, it is a necessity. It is not something that is nice to do, as some Member States and some within the Organization have suggested, it is an absolute need - if we are serious about protecting civilians.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“That could include sustained bilateral pressure, the development of mediation and peacekeeping options, and the consideration of sanctions against those who are perpetrators or organizers of attacks against civilians - or attacks against peacekeepers. We need to think of how many peacekeepers were attacked in 2015 and ask how many of those who attacked United Nations peacekeepers - the very people sent by the Security Council - were ever held accountable, ever. And we need to look at that record over a decade. The answer is a show of the impunity that the perpetrators of attacks against peacekeepers feel, and we can imagine, if that is the case for those coming from Member States of the United Nations sent by the Council, what it is like for the average civilian who has been attacked.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“This option must be exercised, and, in that regard, we welcome the United Nations decision to remove the Democratic Republic of the Congo peacekeepers from the Central African Republic, as an important signal of zero tolerance on abuse. Full accountability is needed across that and other missions for all the allegations that have surfaced. Thirdly, and finally, this Council and this Organization must also recognize that its responsibility for the protection of civilians is not limited to those countries hosting peacekeeping missions. From Madaya to Burundi, when civilians come under threat, the Council must consider every appropriate action at its disposal. We may disagree on what the perfect tool is, but we must agree that we need to open the toolbox and try to put as many tools in place as have a chance at achieving influence.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“Others have touched upon the importance of the Kigali Principles, and we share the appreciation for the initiative taken by Rwanda. The United States is prioritizing support for troop-contributing countries that have committed to the Kigali Principles, or who have otherwise demonstrated a commitment to fully implementing mission mandates. Once deployed, the United Nations leadership must be prepared to replace any contingents that are not effectively protecting civilians, and certainly also any that would harm civilians, including through sexual exploitation and abuse. The additional 50,000 soldiers and police pledged at the September peacekeeping summit gives the United Nations new choices and the ability to replace failing units.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“Shine the spotlight back on us, rather than internalizing the constraints that may well exist; put it back on the Council, where it belongs. The second area is peacekeeping performance and accountability. With nearly all peacekeepers now mandated to protect civilians, they represent one of our most powerful tools in this effort, even if they cannot be, and are not, everywhere. It is incumbent upon the Council to ensure that all contingents are appropriately prepared and sufficiently trained and equipped, and that they are held accountable if they fail to uphold their mandate. From the outset, we must ensure that the mission planning process takes full account of the protection of civilians. This priority should inform strategy development and resource allocation. We must also ensure that the troops being deployed are adequately prepared.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“The Council must also hear immediately from the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) when peacekeeping contingents that are tasked with protecting civilians do not fulfil that component of their mandate. As has been documented, that happens too often. In that instance, we in the Council can try to use our leverage, our leverage in capital in terms of our bilateral ties and our leverage as a Council, to ensure that appropriate action is taken. Building upon the Secretary- General's implementation report on the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (S/2015/682), DPKO should also work to more systematically bring to the Council's attention the most pressing protection challenges and strategies needed to address them.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“Yemen, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Burundi - the list goes on and on. Civilians are not just going unprotected, but often are coming under deliberate attack. Let me briefly suggest three areas in which we - and by we I mean the Security Council, the United Nations and we each as Member States - can and must seek immediate improvements. The first should be straightforward. It is on the transmission of information. When United Nations staff leaders and experts, or when any of us as Member States through our partners on the ground, recognize looming threats or anticipate potential crises, they or we must immediately inform the Council. When something shocks the conscience of someone who works for a non-governmental organization or for the United Nations or for a Member State, come forward again,jump up and down, sound the alarm.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“It bears stressing that, while we have all rightly talked about the use of starvation as a weapon of war here today, that use of food as a weapon of war is happening right alongside other horrific tactics - barrel bombs, chemical weapons use and systematic torture against civilians by the regime, and, of course, when it comes to ISIL, some of the most barbaric and gruesome tactics that we have ever seen employed, including the use of children to execute their parents, including the summoning of civilians, as we saw over the weekend in Deir ez-Zor, with somewhere between 100 and 300 people executed in cold blood, and the sexual enslavement of women like Nadia, whom we heard from in December at our meeting on human trafficking, Where is the sanctity of life? Where is the respect for the human dignity of the person in conflict today?”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“Throughout last year, Damascus did not even bother to respond to more than half of United Nations requests to deliver assistance across conflict lines. And those coutries in the United Nations that have influence over the Syrian regime, who are partnering with it now in the conflict, who are coming in some places to its rescue, please use that influence to get it, in the first instance, to respond to United Nations requests and, above all, to grant those requests. The United Nations estimates that if the regime approved the outstanding requests - the requests outstanding just today - 1.4 million people would receive assistance.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“And it reminds us, above all, of the growing disregard for granting humanitarian access, which used to be a principle that was observed as a general rule, even though there were always exceptions, the disregard for international humanitarian law and, most fundamentally and most disturbingly, the apparent disregard for human life. That is what we are dealing with - a numbing that would allow people to inflict that kind of harm willfully on civilians and on children. More than 4 million Syrians now live in areas where the United Nations struggles to deliver assistance. Time and again the Syrian regime has promised to uphold its most basic responsibilities to its citizens. Time and again it has agreed to allow lifesaving aid to reach starving people, and time and again the Syrian regime has failed to follow through.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“The United Nations was created to prevent crimes against humanity, to prevent atrocities, to prevent images of emaciated children and civilians from being projected out of areas in need. Twelve of 15 by a Member State of the United Nations. Now I speak of Madaya also because it exemplifies what this debate is about. It reminds us of the human stakes when we talk about the protection of civilians. And it shows why we have to talk about the protection of civilians regardless of whether or not peacekeepers are deployed in a particular area.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“Imagine being the mother or the father of a teenage boy like Ali, and watching your child die without the means of helping him or her. We have to try to put ourselves here in the shoes of others. We have to. These families love like our families love. They are human beings, and they need us to do more than we have done up to this point. They need the medical evacuations that the United Nations has asked for, which are being agreed to at a trickle. That is unacceptable. There are 15 besieged areas: two of them besieged by armed opposition groups; one besieged by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); and the rest, 12 of the 15 besieged areas, besieged by a Member State of the United Nations. Think ofthat.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“These aid convoys must continue these evacuations; they must be urgently allowed to proceed, but, above all, the sieges, the daily sieges of these communities, must be lifted. I speak of Madaya as others have done today because the crisis there is far from over for the people living there. As we enter the United Nations today, all of us, we experience the first truly bitter cold day of the winter. Now imagine burning the wooden fixtures and fittings in one's home for some respite from that bitter winter. Imagine burning plastic, as those who have run out of wood to burn have started to do. Imagine surviving for weeks on leaves and grass and then imagine winter coming and taking with it the leaves and grass on which you relied.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“Um Sultan, a resident of Madaya, told Amnesty International, "Every day, I hear that someone is sick and unable to leave their bed. My husband is now one of them. He can't leave his bed, and when he does, he faints. I don't recognize him any more; he is skin and bones. I have asked for help with food, but no one can help. We are all in the same mess." Convoys of food and medical assistance were just recently permitted to reach the 40,000 people suffering in Madaya and the 20,000 people besieged by armed opposition groups in Fu'ah and Kafraya, Evacuations of some of the hundreds of people reportedly near death have finally begun. It goes without saying that this is absurdly overdue.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“Singer recalled that their bodies were skeleton-like. A UNICEF doctor approached one of the teenagers, a 16 year-old named Ali. He looked particularly weak. When the doctor checked his pulse, it turned out there was none. The doctors started trying to resuscitate him, but saw that it was hopeless. According to Singer's account, given to Agence France Presse, the other young man lying next to him became frantic: "Did he die? Did he die?" he asked. Ali's family, themselves malnourished and sitting nearby, wept silently. They did not even have the energy to wail aloud upon realizing that their boy had died. Ali was one of at least 35 people who have starved to death in the town of Madaya since 1 December, eight of them in the past nine days alone.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“I thank the President and Uruguay for its leadership on the issue of the protection of civilians, both here in the Security Council by convening this debate and also in peacekeeping, where Uruguay has played such a strong regional and international role. I thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Beerli and Ms. Rooijmans for their briefings. Let me offer my profound respect and admiration for the heroic, lifesaving work that Oxfam and the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as their volunteers, perform every day in Syria and in other conflict-areas around the world. Last Thursday, the UNICEF representative in Syria, Ms. Hanna Singer, managed to penetrate into the besieged area of Madaya and was brought to the basement of a makeshift hospital. Two teenage boys were sharing a bed.”
2016-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7606 (2016) · source
“I take this opportunity to wish Ambassador Dabbashi, his delegation and the Libyan people peace over the next weeks as we head into the New Year. Again, I underscore what we said yesterday, when we thought we were speaking for the last time, about how invaluable the contributions our colleagues who are leaving the Council have been. However, they are not going far, and we know they will be a critical part of maintaining peace and security and advancing United Nations values more broadly. We have been so lucky to work together. The meeting rose at 3.50 pm.”
2015-12-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7598 (2015) · source
“As the Government of National Accord works to improve security, we will work closely with it to defeat affiliates of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Libya and to eliminate the threat they pose to our collective security. Through this resolution, we recognize the Libyan people's enormous accomplishment in forging the Agrement. We look forward to working together to see it through, and we thank Special Representative Kobler and the UNSMIL team for their heroic dedication to this mission and to all the Libyans from all parts of the country who worked tirelessly to make the Agreement possible. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I give the floor to the representative of Libya.”
2015-12-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7598 (2015) · source
“As to those who reject the path set forward by the Libyan Political Agreement - who seek to undermine the Libyan people's hope for peace - the United States will seek to work with the international community to hold them accountable. After so much turmoil, the Agreement offers Libya a chance - a chance to reclaim the opportunities first made possible by the 17 February 2011 revolution. We all know that the new Government of National Accord will have no shortage of challenges in the days ahead, but the Libyan people will not face them alone. The United States and other Member States will work closely with the Government of National Accord and its leadership to ensure the full implementation of the Libyan Political Agreement and to provide support to the Government as it begins to serve and protect the Libyan people.”
2015-12-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7598 (2015) · source
“Through the adoption today of resolution 2259 (2015), the Council affirms their courageous efforts and welcomes the signing of the Libyan Political Agreement in Skhirat, Morocco, on 17 December. With this resolution, the Council sends a clear message that the Government of National Accord will become the sole legitimate Government of Libya, as set forth in the Agreement. The United States urges all Libyans to unite behind the Libyan Political Agreement and to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the formation of the Government of National Accord by working together towards peace, stability and the rule of law. As Special Representative Kobler has noted, "The door will remain open to those who wish tojoin on the road to peace".”
2015-12-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7598 (2015) · source
“I shall now make a very brief statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. Today's unanimous vote welcomes an important and historic step taken by the Libyan people. Over the past year, with the tireless facilitation and support of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), a broad array of members of the Libyan Political Dialogue have worked together to build an inclusive and representative Government to lead the country forward in its transition. That diverse group included members of the House of Representatives and the General National Congress, women, civil society members, leaders of municipalities and political parties, and independents.”
2015-12-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7598 (2015) · source
“In favour: Angola, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) The President: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2259 (2015). I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements following the voting.”
2015-12-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7598 (2015) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of Libya to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2015/1016, which contains the text ofa draft resolution submitted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by Show ofhands.”
2015-12-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7598 (2015) · source
“I feel that I have grown up in the Council with them and could not have learned more or dreamed of having five better colleagues for the past two years. They care so much, and it shows in everything they do. I thank them and wish them well, as I do the incoming members, who will, I hope, amass the kinds of achievements that these great leaders and public servants have amassed in their time on the Security Council. The meeting rose at 4.50 pm.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“Nigeria showed its leadership on Ebola, both within the country - by acting as a role model in eradicating the epidemic when it briefly sneaked in, showing the world how it could be done and giving people confidence in how the epidemic could be defeated - and also by using its leadership in the Council to rally the United Nations community around the issue. Ijust wanted to thank all those Council members. Those are just a few of their achievements. I am sure they have different versions of their own narrative history, but this is from just one observer who has had the privilege oflistening to them. I became Ambassador to the United Nations in August 2013, so it was just in January 2014, when the five who are departing now came onto the Council, that I was finally learning my way around.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“This past year of Nigeria's time on the Council has been a very difficult period for the country, with the advances ofBoko Haram and, of course, the urgent need to mobilize international support for Nigeria's efforts to fight Boko Haram in every area, not just militarily. In addition, Nigeria has just shown the world something very important through its peaceful transition of power from President Jonathan to President Buhari. That role modelling is probably more important than any resolution we adopt, as it shows a leader handing over power democratically and in accordance with term limits. That is inherently stabilizing. During its time on the Council, Nigeria has given attention to security sector reform and to dignity.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“Her work organizing the meeting on small arms (see S/PV.7442), over which she presided, along with the support of many Council members here has been tremendous, and she has been incredibly vigilant on the sanctions issue as it relates to some very serious crises in Africa. I know that she will be working right up until 31 December to try to ensure more progress. Finally - and I am grateful to all for indulging me, but the people who are leaving the Council are amazing - I turn to Nigeria. Ambassador ngu is the voice of reason - as she just described, she is the only person here who quotes Shakespeare from memory, and I have never heard her repeat a Shakespeare quote, which suggests that she has memorized the complete works, and I congratulate her on that.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“However, I can say that her courage and her voice will be remembered by the people of Ukraine, I know, in addition to whoever the groupies are who watch United Nations Web TV. Her performance and truth-telling has been a signature feature of her leadership here. I would also like to thank her for breaking a seal, in terms of Council meetings, by convening the first-ever meeting of ministers of the interior to look at border controls and foreign terrorist fighter flows (see S/PV.7453). I think we are going to see more and more of that happening at the United Nations, and it will always be Lithuania that led the way. In addition, Ambassador Murmokaite has given much attention to the protection of j ournalists.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“I would also like to thank Jordan for its leadership on the signature issue of violent extremism, and for the way it has drawn the attention of the Council and the United Nations family to the issue of youth and extremism - pointing out that if we do not get that right, we will not have success with any of the other steps we are taking. I believe we have only just begun to think about what it means to really target our efforts to that population. I did not think, when Ambassador Murmokaite joined the Council, that her part of the world would take centre stage. It is unfortunate that it has and that events in that region turned so dark and deadly, although, fortunately, not in Lithuania.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“Having Jordan on the Council, reminding us of the human toll that the Syrian conflict is taking and of the fact that Jordan has shouldered such an enormous burden, along with Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, is extremely significant. The fact that Jordan was also a penholder on the Syrian humanitarian resolution was one of the main reasons we were able to secure the international border crossings in the way that we did. Having now renewed the agreements on those border crossings, we credit Jordan greatly for its leadership.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“I do not know whether we would have predicted that the elections would have gone as well as they have, but I commend Chile for its leadership there and regarding the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti itself. In addition, I will always value the privilege I had of presiding together with Chile over the first-ever Council meeting on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues, and I am eternally grateful for Chile's leadership on that. It was a harrowing briefing on what the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is doing to LGBT persons, and not one that anyone in the United Nations community will forget, I think.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“Its work culminated in resolution 2256 (2015), on the international tribunals, which we adopted today, but it has also banged the drum in every context on the issue of the protection of civilians. In the Arria-Formula meeting held earlier this month, Chile took up the issue of the responsibility to protect and non-State actors, which has not had enough attention. The open debate it organized during its presidency on the protection of civilians (see S/PV.7374) was on an important subject, but so was Chile's voice in every discussion we have had, reminding people of the fates of civilians. For Haiti, although the work is not done and the elections have gone forward, Chile has also been one of the most important voices here, helping to lead and shape the trip that we took to Haiti as a Council 13 months ago.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“Cherif will not be on the Council next year, his voice will be with us inside our heads. I would also like to commend Chad for the steps it has taken at home to eradicate the problem of child soldiers, which has given it a position from which it can lead. It is a very difficult issue, and Chad has done a great deal to ensure that its army does not include child soldiers and that recruits meet the minimum age requirements. Chad has taken that issue and has led with it here on the Council and in the broader United Nations community, and that is very important. Chile has made international justice a hallmark of its time on the Council, and that could not be more important.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“Chad has led the Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations, and we have just received another example of its commitment, which we will work on until the end of the month. We are not giving up on the month of December. Chad has also emphasized - in my view, really moving the ball down the field - the relationship between the Security Council and regional and subregional organizations, including through the open debate it organized (see S/PV.7343). Although we were not able to take a trip to Burundi this month as we had hoped, it looks as if we will be taking one in January, and not a moment too soon. I think that trip will bear the hallmark of Chad's influence on the Council, because we are thinking very carefully about how to do it in conjunction with the regional and subregional efforts that are under way. Even though Mr.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“One can feel as if one is watching paint dry and that we are not making enough progress. We are reminded of that every day by the human toll that is taken when we are unable to reach consensus, or when we reach consensus but our resolutions are not implemented. Sometimes, however, it is better to live life retrospectively, and to look back on what has been achieved over a longer period of time. I think all of us could benefit from doing that more often. I would like to single out each of the departing Council members. Chad has focused on peacekeeping issues. It is a country that knows of what it speaks, because it has put its troops in harm's way in extremely difficult missions, particularly in Mali, where 18 Chadian peacekeepers in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali have been killed.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“In 2016 we must deal with the conditions in the interpretation booths. We thank them all. As one of the faster speakers here, who tries to cram a lot in, I feel great sympathy for the interpreters. I feel I commit human rights abuses every time I give a speech, so our thanks go to the interpreters, who have done a tremendous job all of this month and all year. On behalf of everyone here, I would like to wish Uruguay the best. It is not easy to come onto the Council and immediately take over the presidency, but we have every faith in the great Uruguayan team and all the support that all of us intend to give them as they preside over the Council in January. I would now like to say a few words to the Council members who are departing. I often say to my own team that life lived prospectively on the Security Council can be very frustrating.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“Before adjourning the meeting, as this is the last scheduled meeting of the Council for the month of December, although we are hoping to convene another again shortly on Libya, I would like to express the sincere appreciation of the delegation of the United States to the members of the Council, especially my colleagues, the Permanent Representatives and all of their staffs and to the secretariat of the Council for all the support they have given to us. I am not sure that this was the month that everybody bargained for, but it was the month that fortune handed us, and we got a lot of business done. The Secretariat, the interpreters and others must be truly exhausted, so we would like to thank them. I saw the Arabic interpreters fanning themselves earlier, which suggests that it is even worse up there than I thought.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“By meeting the obligations of the resolution, every Government can do much to reduce the vulnerability of the entire international community to the threat. The United States looks forward to continuing to work closely with our colleagues and our allies and partners and everyone on the Committee and on the Council to deepen and broaden implementation of and support for resolution 1540 (2004). I now resume my functions as President of the Council.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“Since the last briefing on non-proliferation before the Council in June (see S/PV.7469), the United States has continued to strengthen its efforts to combat proliferation by ratifying four important international non-proliferation instruments: the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism and two Protocols to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation. As has been noted, the United States will also convene the fourth international Nuclear Security Summit beginning on 31 March 2016 to advance global measures to secure nuclear materials and facilities.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“In addition, we must develop better mechanisms for effective engagement by the Committee and Member States with parliamentarians, academics, industry experts and civil-society members in combating the proliferation of WMDs, especially to non-State actors, and making the Committee more effective and efficient in fulfilling its mandate, especially by identifying priority tasks for the Committee to complete by the end of its current mandate in 2021.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“We look forward to robust participation of all States and relevant international, regional and subregional organizations, civil society and industry in the review process. The United States encourages the review to generate recommendations in the following areas, among others: closing the persisting gaps in implementation in the areas of biosecurity, chemical security, export controls and proliferation financing; making national reporting and Committee monitoring more regular and more robust; and improving the assistance process so that more States can implement the resolution. I have heard that a lot of States complain that they have been unable to gain assistance to remedy their reporting problem.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“It will soon publish online its data set on Member States' implementation of non-proliferation obligations, creating one of the world's best information troves on the issue available to the public. Again, that is essential for accountability and for improvements. The Committee increasingly uses social media and public-service announcements, ensuring that the public is not only better informed, but also that the key actors, such as parliamentarians and civil-society partners, can help the Committee achieve its aims. Under Spain's direction, the 1540 Committee developed and has started executing its plan for the completion of a second comprehensive review of the status of the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004).”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“The Committee is generally united on key issues and works as a team to effectively carry out its mandate. Under Spain's leadership this past year, the 1540 Committee has made significant strides in promoting full implementation. For the first time since 2010, the Committee completed an assessment of all Member States on their implementation of the resolution. That was an arduous and highly technical effort. That monitoring and accountability allows the international community to measure progress in combating proliferation and the means of delivery of WMDs and to identify those areas in which we are coming up short, the areas to which we must pay the most attention. Furthermore, the Committee has made important strides to increase transparency.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“But I agree very much with other Council members and with the Ambassador that, given the human stakes and the demonstrable malevolent intent of many non-State actors, including the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, we have to do more. Resolution 1540 (2004) has a global mandate, backed up by Chapter VII obligations, pursuant to the Charter of the United Nations. However, the Committee has not yet had to rely on such measures in order to achieve its objectives. Instead, it has engaged in dialogue with Member States and incrementally built up support for an international climate of non-proliferation through cooperation. In the Security Council, where political infighting all too often stands in the way of finding consensus, the 1540 Committee shows what can be achieved when such differences are put aside.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“There are few areas of such immediate and direct relevance to the maintenance of international peace and security as the efforts of Member States to prevent non-State actors from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The recent terrorist attacks across the world have made clear the willingness of violent extremist groups to inflict mass suffering. Those attacks underscore why it is essential that the international community keep weapons of mass destruction out of their hands. We have made important progress since resolution 1540 (2004) was adopted in 2004. Some 174 countries, 90 per cent of Member States, have reported on the measures that they have undertaken to implement the resolution.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“I thank the representative of Chile for his leadership on the Council for the last two years on a host of issues. I shall now make a statement, in my capacity as the representative of the United States, with regard to the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). I again thank Ambassador Roman Oyarzun Marchesi for his informative briefing and his deep and personal commitment to this set of issues and for his leadership as the 1540 Committee moves through a period in which there is an appeal for more to be done and for all of us to combine our efforts to ensure that the Committee receives the support needed with regard to enforcement and implementation.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“I thank the representative ofNigeria for her leadership on the Security Council. I would like to say that in my two years representing my country in the Council, I have noticed that whenever Mrs. ngu talks, everybody puts down what they are doing and listens to her. I wish I had what she has. I guess I will have what she has been eating or drinking. She just exudes wisdom, to her team and to her colleagues. It has been a great privilege for me. I will say more about Nigeria when we close.”
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“I thank the representative of Jordan for her statement, as well as for her leadership. I do not know of any role more difficult than that of being pushed and pulled in so many directions as she has been. The Ambassador has done a tremendous job with incredible poise, and always with such regard for the people who are not represented in the Security Council Chamber. It has been a great privilege for all of us who have had the chance to work with her. We thank the Ambassador.”
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“I will come back to the representative of Chad later. Because he has spoken about the importance of having a strong African voice on the Council, I would like to let him know that his voice was very loud, very strong and always a voice for dignity, and that voice will be missed. We therefore hope to hear from him going forward.”
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